In a rematch of the 2019 U.S. Open final, second seed Daniil Medvedev will meet sixth seed Rafael Nadal in the final of the 2022 Australian Open on Sunday, January 30. Get the live streaming options of this Daniil Medvedev v Rafael Nadal match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Daniil Medvedev v Rafael Nadal Head to Head
Nadal is 3-1 against the Russian.
All of Nadal’s wins came in 2019, when the Spaniard beat Medvedev in the finals of the Canadian Open and the U.S. Open and in the round robin phase of the ATP Finals.
Medvedev got his first and only win over Nadal at the semifinals of the ATP Finals in 2020 en route to capturing the title.
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Medvedev Chasing Back-to-Back Major Titles
Daniil Medvedev showed his championship caliber as he defeated fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in another high-octane contest at the Australian Open on Friday. The 2021 runner-up had beaten the Greek at the same stage of the competition last year. But that was more of a one-sided affair. The World No. 4 matched the Russian over the first three sets on Friday, but once Medvedev edged the third set to take a two-sets to-one lead it was all one way traffic.
Chasing his first major success in Melbourne, Medvedev struck 39 winners to Tsitsipas’ 35 and converted four of 12 break points to win the thrilling two-hour-and-30-minute contest 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.
A couple of days after showing his mettle in a lion-hearted comeback victory over the promising Felix Auger-Aliassime in the quarterfinal, Medvedev had to deal with another high-pressure contest that saw him lose his cool at chair umpire Jaume Campistol after he was broken in the ninth game of the second set to fall behind 4-5 in the set. Alleging that Tsitsipas was receiving coaching from his father he blasted the umpire asking him to give the Greek a code violation.
Following the tense exchange, Medvedev lost the set but gathered himself soon to seize the momentum back. Even the boos from the crowd, couldn’t put him off as he took control of the proceedings.
On Sunday, the 2021 U.S. Open champion will look to win his second Grand Slam title. His road to a second consecutive final in Melbourne hasn’t been an easy one. Barring two easy straight set wins over Switzerland’s Henri Laaksonen in the first round and Dutchman Botic Van de Zandschulp in the third, the Russian has been challenged in all the other matches, but Medvedev has passed all the tests with flying colours, living up to his reputation of being the tournament favourite, following the deportation of top seed Novak Djokovic before the start of the tournament.
He had to fight not just Nick Kyrgios but also a sometimes disrespectful crowd during his 7-6 (7-1), 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 second-round win over the Aussie. Then in the fourth round it was Maxime Cressy’s net game that put the Russian under a bit of pressure, but Medvedev blunt out the effect of the serve-and-volley specialist with a 6-2, 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (4-7), 7-5 victory in three hours and 30 minutes.
He was on the brink of elimination in the quarterfinal against Auger-Aliassime, having lost the first two sets, but he was up for a fight. He saved a match point in the fourth set and then marched to an incredible 6-7 (4-7), 3-6, 7-6 (7-2), 7-5, 6-4 victory in four hours and 42 minutes.
On Sunday, he faces one of the greatest in the sport. The only other time they met at a Grand Slam final was in 2019 at the U.S. Open and that turned out to be a classic with Medvedev coming back from two sets down to force the decider, only to falter in the final set. Another epic is expected on Sunday, but will Medvedev get his revenge?
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Nadal on the Brink of History
Thirteen years after winning his only Australian Open title, Rafael Nadal is one win away from tasting glory for a second time in Melbourne. Not that he hasn’t had chances to add to his sole success down under but despite reaching the finals on four occasions in the last decade, he always finished the second best. Two of those still rank among the best finals in the opening major.
Sunday’s summit clash promises to be another thriller and Nadal will hope to draw on his experience to finally end the series of four losses in Australian Open finals. He would be eager to end on a high and experience the same emotions that engulfed him after his marathon four-hour-and-23-minute 7–5, 3–6, 7–6 (7-3), 3–6, 6–2 win over Roger Federer in 2009.
It’s not just a second major in Melbourne that Nadal is chasing, what’s at stake is an even bigger prize: a record-breaking 21st Grand Slam title that would put him above two of his biggest tennis rivals over the last two decades.
Will the Rod Laver Arena witness history on Sunday? Going by how the former No. 1 has performed in the first six matches of the tournament there seems to be a very good possibility of that happening.
On Friday, the 35-year-old continued his dominance with another solid performance, as he brushed aside Italian Mateo Berrettini 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in a close to three-hour contest. Nadal converted four of eight break points and saved one of two to outclass the seventh seed and secure a spot in a sixth final in Melbourne.
The Spaniard had come into the tournament after clinching his 89th career title at the Melbourne Summer Set to kickstart 2022. He has been relentless from the start of the tournament, beginning with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 rout of Marcos Giron in the first round. The lefty faced little resistance from Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann, while putting up another clinical performance for a 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win in the second round.
Next up was Olympic silver medallist Karen Khachanov, who would take a set off the World No. 5 to spice things up, but Nadal would quickly be back in his elements to finish off the Russian 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 in the Round of 32.
A third straight sets victory followed as Nadal overcame France’s Adrian Mannarino 7-6 (16-14), 6-2, 6-2 in a fourth round contest which witnessed an epic first-set tiebreak.
His toughest test so far was against Denis Shapovalov in the quarterfinal when he held off a spirited comeback effort from the Canadian to score a 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3 win in four hours and seven minutes.
Medvedev v Nadal Prediction and Tip
Medvedev has not been a crowd favourite and Nadal will clearly enjoy maximum support (Who wouldn’t want to be part of history after all?). But the Russian tends to raise his game once the crowd starts getting on his nerves. There are times when he is put off and things backfire, but there is something about the 25-year-old that brings the best out of him under pressure.
Talking of pressure, Nadal is a master in absorbing pressure. He’s done that for years together and will prepared to do that again on Sunday.
Expect a cracking contest. Will Nadal create history? While there is a great chance of him doing that, Medvedev will still be a slight favourite in this contest and he could keep Nadal tied at 20 slams.
Tip: Medvedev to win: 1/2 (Click Here to Bet with bet365)
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